On June 26, 2003, the Supreme Court stck down a Texas law banng gay sodomy — a watershed moment for gay rights. But 15 years later, same-sex upl face another urt se that aims to roll back their rights.
Contents:
- APPEALS JUDG RAISE DOUBTS ON GAY MARRIAGE BAN
- SUPREME COURT: GAY MARRIAGE BANS ARE UNNSTUTNAL
- OPN ON GAY MARRIAGE (JUNE 2015)
- TEXAS ATTORNEY GENERAL ATTACKS 'LAWLS' SUPREME URT LG ON GAY MARRIAGE
- FIFTEEN YEARS AFTER LANDMARK GAY RIGHTS SE, SAME-SEX UPL TEXAS STILL FACE CHALLENG URT
APPEALS JUDG RAISE DOUBTS ON GAY MARRIAGE BAN
Texas upl began impromptu weddgs Travis County and others followg Friday's U.S. Supreme Court cisn legalizg gay marriage all 50 stat. * texas gay marriage 2015 *
Supreme Court stck down bans on gay marriage. At a prs nference Friday afternoon, Neel Lane, the lawyer for the gay upl who had sued Texas over s same-sex marriage ban a separate se, remd public officials who have sworn oaths to uphold the state and feral nstutns that they nnot lay enforcg the lg. Texas gay marriage advot pped off a day of celebratn Friday at the Central Prbyterian Church downtown At.
Kirk Watson, were joed by Cleopatra De Leon and Nile Dimetman, two women who along wh another gay uple beme the fac of Texas’ marriage equaly fight after they sued the state over s ban. Organized by Equaly Texas, a gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr rights advocy group, the At event was one of several celebratg the Supreme Court’s “Decisn Day. 5th Circu Court of Appeals when the Supreme Court led bans on gay marriage were no longer nstutnal.
↑ NPR, "Feral Judge Voids Texas Gay Marriage Ban, " Febary 26, 2014, " accsed Febary 27, 2014.
SUPREME COURT: GAY MARRIAGE BANS ARE UNNSTUTNAL
The Texas Supreme Court blocks gay upl om obtag marriage licens after two women participated the state’s first same-sex marriage At. * texas gay marriage 2015 *
↑ The Tim‑Piyune, "Arguments gay marriage s om Louisiana and Texas set for January, " October 27, 2014. Hours later, however, the Texas Supreme Court blocked other gay upl om obtag marriage licens after a legal challenge by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
“There are thoands of gay Texans. Tobias said the Supreme Court stay sentially means the issuance of other marriage licens to gay upl is unlikely. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTPooja Mandagere, left, and Natalie Thompson outsi the Supreme Court on Friday after led favor of same-sex Mills/The New York TimSli 1 of 14 Pooja Mandagere, left, and Natalie Thompson outsi the Supreme Court on Friday after led favor of same-sex Mills/The New York TimJune 26, 2015WASHINGTON — In a long-sought victory for the gay rights movement, the Supreme Court led by a 5-to-4 vote on Friday that the Constutn guarante a right to same-sex marriage.
OPN ON GAY MARRIAGE (JUNE 2015)
In a long-sought victory for the gay rights movement, the urt led, 5-4, that the Constutn guarante a right to same-sex marriage. * texas gay marriage 2015 *
”In a send dissent, Jtice Anton Slia mocked the soarg language of Jtice Kennedy, who has bee the natn’s most important judicial champn of gay rights.
TEXAS ATTORNEY GENERAL ATTACKS 'LAWLS' SUPREME URT LG ON GAY MARRIAGE
Handg gay rights advot a monumental victory, the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday led that marriag between upl of the same sex nnot be prohibed by stat, a cisn that overris Texas’ ban on gay marriage. * texas gay marriage 2015 *
”Jtice Kennedy was the thor of all three of the Supreme Court’s prev gay rights landmarks. Texas, which stck down laws makg gay sex a all of those cisns, Jtice Kennedy embraced a visn of a livg Constutn, one that evolv wh societal chang.
”Gay rights advot had nstcted a reful ligatn and public relatns strategy to build momentum and brg the issue to the Supreme Court when appeared ready to le their favor. Gay rights advot, the chief jtice wrote, would have been better off wh a victory achieved through the polil procs, particularly “when the wds of change were heng at their backs.
Texas, which stck down laws makg gay sex a crime. Acrdg to the Texas judicial missn’s 2019 warng, Hensley referred gay upl who wanted her to pri over their marriage ceremony to other people who would officiate. By one vote, the urt l that same-sex marriage nnot be banned the Uned Stat and that all same-sex marriag mt be regnized natnwi, fally grantg same-sex upl equal rights to heterosexual upl unr the 1971, jt two years after the Stonewall Rts that unofficially marked the begng of the stggle for gay rights and marriage equaly, the Mnota Supreme Court had found same-sex marriage bans nstutnal, a precent which the Supreme Court had never challenged.
FIFTEEN YEARS AFTER LANDMARK GAY RIGHTS SE, SAME-SEX UPL TEXAS STILL FACE CHALLENG URT
Three days after the Supreme Court legalized gay marriage natnwi, some Texas unty clerks are refg to issue marriage licens to same-sex upl. * texas gay marriage 2015 *
As homosexualy gradually beme more accepted Amerin culture, the nservative backlash was strong enough to force Print Bill Clton to sign the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), prohibg the regnn of same-sex marriag at the feral level, to law 1996.
Gay marriage was the predomant "culture war" issue of Gee W. Obergefell origated wh a gay uple, Jim Obergefell and John Arthur, who were married Maryland, where same-sex marriage was legal, but whose marriage was not regnized by Oh thori. We saw stat before Obergefell, some stat were movg to allow gay marriage, other stat were movg to allow civil partnerships.
Ken Paxton vows to fend clerks who refe to register gay unns on relig grounds, but most unti are issug licenc * texas gay marriage 2015 *
:Clarence Thomas lls for Supreme Court to 'rensir' gay marriage, ntraceptn'New era' or 'dark day'? "In Obergefell, the urt said, 'No, we know better than you guys do, and now every state mt, mt sanctn and perm gay marriage. Smh, the third judge on the panel hearg the se, qutned whether legal precent left the cisn to regnize gay marriage the hands of dividual stat.
The urt also heard arguments Friday s on gay marriage bans Louisiana and Mississippi.
Texas’ same-sex marriage ban has been said to be on prer legal ground as appellate urts across the untry have led gay marriage legal almost three-quarters of the untry, makg Texas one of 14 stat that do not allow marriag between upl of the same sex. “Everyone knows that the law is about the moral disapproval of homosexuals, ” Lane said, addg that there was a disnnect between the state’s arguments and the law’s effect on gay upl like his clients who live unr a “cloud of stigma. While Lane prented his arguments, Grav dited he thought would be “legally nsistent” to allow stat to regnize a same-sex marriage om another state but not allow gay people to marry wh their borrs.